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LittleItalyWiFi: Free Wi-Fi Access in Downtown San Diego has been down for a few weeks. To make matters worse, the access point is still turned on -- transmitting an empty signal to the entire neighborhood and creating frustration for all who try use it. The Little Italy site currently exhorts ...

thattechnicalbookstore.com is the reincarnation of San Diego Technical Books, which apparently is having some drama lately involving financial difficuties, and perhaps bankruptcy. But all that I've heard is gossip thus far. In the meantime, check That Technical Bookstore dot com for your geeky book needs. And actually, someone told ...

Hey! this is not political: tribe.net local: San Diego -- looks like it's trying to play in the same sphere as sandiego.craigslist.org. via waxy.org

Lt Smash notes that he will again appear on KPBS, this time he'll be discussing the impact of political bloggers. Looks like that'll be today at 10-11 -- the These Days site doesn't have any info on this, but I'm looking forward to it. Update 9/30: : ...

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We have lots of people coming to the site because we had mentioned Toorcon, which happened over the weekend. Sadly, nobody on staff here went or has anything to say about it. Maybe some of our visitors can share what they thought? BoingBoing mentioned it before it ...

Funny: eBay item 3931241522 (Ends Sep-28-04 08:09:34 PDT) - Amazingly Versatile 7-Letter Kit - Includes: LINDOWS Lindows Linspire is a San Diego company. (via Waxy.org)

Joelle of Blogmoxie, Rock The Walk, and her own Tenth-Muse, clues me in... SanDiegoBlog.com may have been on the news this morning, as I have the URL listed as a supporter on our 3' x 10' Rock the Walk Banner. There were several shots of the lead ...

MSN Music does music somehow, and they include radio stations -- local ones too -- This is is a list of San Diego radio stations they offer -- but I'm not sure how it works. I'd bet it has something to do with having the latest version of Windows ...

Do you want to be our friend? Do you use LiveJournal? Well, it seems that our RSS feed has been sucked up and syndicated to http://www.livejournal.com/users/san_diego_blog/, and if you really want to be our friend you can add us as a friend. You can read about LJ (no ...

I am selfish and want more cafes to have wireless access. So this is promising news: SoCalFreeNet.org Launches Hotspot Program! SoCalFreeNet.org is proud to announce a new partnership with www.sputnik.com to grow free wireless Internet access in coffee shops, retail properties and residential neighborhoods in San Diego (and beyond)! Using the ...

Via SoCalTech.com: San Diego, Los Angeles Among Most Broadband Connected Nielsen/NetRatings, the Internet audience measurement firm, reported that in August 2004 San Diego and Los Angeles were among the most connected cities in the nation, with over 60% broadband connectivity. The company found that the top local markets connected via broadband ...

Did you know that Meetup.com has redesigned? Well, they have, and perhaps this North County Times article indicates they're doing some PR these days: Members of the two groups found each other through their politics, but with almost 5,000 topics, meetups are just as likely to be about a ...

San Diego Blog is under continuous improvement. While we may not have the budget of the Union-Tribune, we still have some cool gee-whiz technology. One that we just implemented is "most commented" links on the side over there. We're using Nick Momrik's Most Commented plgin to get this functionality ...

Flickr.com is a site designed to make it easy to upload photos to the web, then share them with your friends. It's got some really pretty, and really easy interfaces. They also allow people to share their photos with the world easily by marking them up with "tags" -- ...

Hey, ToorCon is coming up: ToorCon, San Diego's own information security conference looks forward to it's 6th year in September 2004. Founded originally by the San Diego 2600 group and active members in the local security community, ToorCon has slowly grown from a small underground gathering to a conference attracting security professionals and hackers ...

It's the first of the month! Time again to mark the passage of time by noting the new San Diego Bloggers: 2004-08-31 Stuellen (Atom)(+)2004-08-29 1069fm (Atom)2004-08-27 Street Scene Weblog (Atom)(...

Comments! We Get Comments! We Get Lots & Lots Of Comments! So a few weeks ago, when we were mentioning Michael Hemmingson's republishing, there was some gosssip in this comment, to whit: Could be she had to sign a confidentiality statement when canned – you know, “if you don’t sign this ...

Doh! Yesterday San Diego Blog took the day off. Profusest apologies. We return now by linking to the huge gallery from Sign On San Diego -- Street Scene 2004 Photos. In geekier news, there's this event on Wednesday from the SDOSS: 09/01/04 6:30pm  Union Tribune's SignOnSanDiego  is Open-Source "from top to bottom":

A message from Margaret Kazmer to the staff of the San Diego Public Library, from yesterday: As of today, all of SDPL's branch libraries, and Central Lib, have free wireless public Internet Access, with the exception of the Skyline Hills Branch, which, because of infrastructure issues, cannot provide this service. If you, ...